of five executives who spent $82,000 in travel by 18 months, the biggest spender by far is top guy, peter gravitt, who spent nearly $32,000 on travel since may of 2011. >> is the director available to talk to us about this? >> no. >> reporter: we were told he's traveling. records show that 75% of trips have been to attend an event that were near his home. 45 of the trips are non-mission critical. >> the governor has said you can travel if it's to audit, revenue collect, to do business. >> well, we are doing business. >> but you're not. >> this is business. >> we've looked at the records. come on. he's going down there for a fund-raiser over a weekend. his house is down there. why should the taxpayer pay for that? >> he goes down there to meet with those individuals, many of them who are corporate leaders, who have agreed and worked with us on trying to identify and hire veterans. >> reporter: it's not just secretary gravitt. 16 of the 17 trips robin umberg took were for an event 12 miles from her home. another undersecretary took 39 trips. 26of them were non-mission critical. >> how do th